Education: The Cardinal & the Cadets

What will become of West Point's dismissed cadets? To each of them, the
Bellman Publishing Co. of Boston offered a free copy of its book, How
to Choose That College. But last week, as they quietly left the Point
one by one, most of the cadets faced a different problemhow to find a
college that would choose them.

Columbia University announced that it would "not even consider"
admitting transfers. The University of Virginia wanted no one who had
been "dropped or suspended from another college." Neither did
Washington and Lee. Meanwhile, Pennsylvania State College was waiting
to see "whether the Academy indicated...